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...show itself-a comedy laid in "the smallest country in Europe" -has the Soviet ambassador's son and the U.S. ambassador's daughter falling madly in love. It has the two embassies in a predictably farcical tizzy over the news, and it has Actor-Playwright Ustinov, as the bearded, pince-nezed, messily over-adorned head of the country issuing directives to his two-man army, lending a sly hand to the romance and rushing back and forth between the embassies to confide secrets they already know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Lanin may charge $90 for a two-man short turn or as much as $15,000 for a nightlong ball with full band. Although he generally stops playing at the contracted hour, well-heeled and well-oiled bloods, their Lester Lanin beanies askew, occasionally dance up to him and slip him $500 or so to keep things jamming till sunrise. Lanin is more flexible about his fees than most society bandleaders. To cultivate a future clientele, he will play for almost nothing for the subdeb crowd or the allowance-ridden young men of Princeton, Harvard and Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Society Band | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...theme currently popular in French intellectual circles. But just how much is sound and how much simple fury? The editors of Paris' intellectual weekly Arts assigned a two-man team to measure U.S. influence in France, last week devoted five pages to their findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Resistance Movement | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...first six-day bicycle race in six years was under way. The crowd came alive as relief riders piled onto the track to take over from tiring teammates. The race itself became a wheeled madhouse as the hard-pumping Aussies tried to steal a lap on two-man teams representing the U.S. and eight other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whirl to Nowhere | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Rand's two-man team, Russian Expert Melville J. Ruggles and Arnold Kramish, nuclear intelligence specialist, got most of their information from surprisingly nonsecret sources: the files of Russian scientific periodicals lying almost undisturbed in the Library of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Russian Manhattan Project | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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